17th October 1936

17th October 1936

Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath

Dear Madeleine!

Thank you very much for your letter. Please excuse my not writing you, but I too had no time. Now for the moment I am alone, but Mami and Muck will soon return from Munich. Loll and Deidi are at Lindau for some days at our aunts Calabrian I have to learn with my governess, and if I am free I have to go out. I have always school from 8 in the morning till a quarter pass eleven, and every afternoon piano lesson and homework from five till 7 in the evening. Then we have supper at seven and afterwards we often go to the opera in Munich. Yesterday we saw “Zar and Carpenter”(or how it is called in English) of Lortzing. We took our two eldest cousins of Uncle Rupprecht with us. They are 13 and 12 years old. Some days before we had seen “The Barber of Sevilla” which I liked very much. Last week we saw “Lohengrin” of Wagner. Loll did not go, because she doesn’t like it. Tomorrow we go to a horse-racing. I hope it will be good weather, or we will be frozen to death! The last days were quite nice, but last week we had 30cm of snow. A lot of trees and branches broke off it was if the leaves are still on the trees. We have rather often visits, so you see we are not left lonely as in Sarvar. Papi and Ludwig went back to Sarvar on the 15th. They have the big autumn shootings now. It is a pity we are not there, I liked it very much. Papi will return next month, but Ludwig has to stay till Xmas. I think I wrote you a lot of things which don’t interest you at all, but I can’t write letters. Please excuse my mistakes, I only hope you can read all.

Yours very truly,

Baby

I send some old photos of Middelkerke and one of the castle where we lived in olden times and of our new home. I was born in the castle. Now our uncle Rupprecht lives there with his family.

Note: There were no photos with this letter.